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• Apple will hold a new product launch conference on October 18, releasing new AirPods and MacBook Pro
• A "company schedule" was so popular that it was reported! Covers more than 1,300 companies including Tencent and Ali
• WeChat test deep cleanup function
• Former Apple employee complains about violation of company confidentiality regulations
• The father of the original Microsoft Xbox apologized to AMD
• AirPods may support temperature monitoring
• Source code hosting platform GitLab landed on Nasdaq
• Apple takes 75% of global mobile phone market profits
• Google releases conditions for use of Android 12
• Microsoft is scheduled to release Visual Studio 2022 on November 8
• IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 EAP 4 is officially released
• Deno 1.15 is officially released
• jQuery UI 1.13.0 is officially released
• Ubuntu 21.10 is officially released, using GNOME 40 desktop environment by default

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​Apple will hold a new product launch conference on October 18, releasing the new AirPods and MacBook Pro

Apple will hold a new product launch conference at 10 am on October 18th (Tuesday), US time, and 1 am on Wednesday, October 19th, Beijing time. This is another conference after the autumn conference in September. At this conference, Apple will release new hardware products such as the new AirPods and MacBook Pro.

A "company schedule" is so popular that it has been reported! Covers more than 1,300 companies including Tencent and Ali

With the development of science and technology, the 996 and weekly work system has become an open "culture" in Internet companies. In recent days, a schedule of 1,300 companies has gone viral. This is a multi-person online collaboration form called "Company Work and Rest WorkerLivesMatter". The document summarizes the actual working hours of various departments including Tencent, Baidu, Ali, Meituan, Huawei and other major factories. As soon as this table came out, it quickly reached the top of the Zhihu Hot List.

It is worth noting that the form was so hot that it was reported offline, which made it impossible to view it. After a manual review, it returned to normal, but Zhihu's heat dropped rapidly afterwards.

It is reported that this document summarizes the real working hours of various departments including Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance, Baidu, Meituan, Huawei, NetEase, JD, Xiaomi, OPPO, etc. The table involves companies, departments, positions, Time to go to and from work, number of working days in a week, and whether to write a daily report, weekly report, and other information. Covers more than 1,300 company information, spanning traditional industries such as the Internet, financial consulting, real estate, games, petroleum, and construction.

WeChat test deep cleaning function

Recently, WeChat has launched a small-scale deep cleanup function internal test. Enter recover in the WeChat search bar to call up the official WeChat repair tool, which can be used, but this time the test is still a small-scale internal test, and not everyone is eligible.

Apple employee complained about violation of company confidentiality regulations

A dismissed Apple employee recently filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), claiming that the strict regulations in the Apple employee handbook and Apple CEO Cook’s recent practice of punishing those who leaked company information violated U.S. law . As of now, Apple has not responded to this matter.

The father of the original Microsoft Xbox apologized to AMD

Seamus Blackley, the designer of the original Xbox console, said on Twitter recently that he wanted to apologize to AMD on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Microsoft's Xbox. It is reported that the first-generation Xbox uses Intel Pentium III 733MHz model CPU, and the GPU is the special graphics chip X-Chip 233MHz jointly developed by Microsoft and Nvidia.

AirPods may support body temperature monitoring

According to reports, Apple has begun to extend some of the health monitoring functions of Apple Watch smart watches to AirPods wireless headset products. The latest public documents and people familiar with the matter said that in the future AirPods may support body temperature monitoring, and there are already "prototype products." It can also enhance hearing and help the hearing impaired.

source code hosting platform GitLab landed on Nasdaq

GitLab landed on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Thursday, local time, with an issue price of US$77. Regular trading GitLab's stock price rose by US$26.89, an increase of 34.92%, to close at US$103.89, with a market value of US$14.9 billion. GitLab was founded in 2014 to provide programmers with software development and collaboration tools. As a major competitor of Microsoft's GitHub, GitLab has received widespread market attention and is also favored by many developers and investors.

Apple takes 75% of the global mobile phone market profit

According to data released by Counterpoint, Xiaomi became the world's second largest smartphone brand in the second quarter of this year. But from the perspective of revenue and profit, Apple still occupies the first place. 75% of the operating profit of the global mobile phone market is taken away by Apple. It accounts for 40% of total revenue, but mobile phone shipments only account for global mobile phone exports. 13% of the volume. Although the data looks good, it has declined compared to the fourth quarter of 2020. In the fourth quarter, Apple accounted for 50% of total global revenue and a profit share of 86%.

Google released Android 12 conditions of use

For some key requirements of Android 12, the device requirements given by Google are:

• Must have at least 6GB of RAM
• The screen must be at least 400dpi pixel density and 1080p resolution
• At least 120MB/s continuous write speed, 250MB/s continuous read speed, 10MB/s random write and 40MB/s random read speed
• The mobile phone has at least a 12-megapixel rear camera capable of 4K 30 FPS shooting, and a at least 4 million-pixel front camera capable of 1080p FPS shooting

The latest technology trends

Microsoft is scheduled to release Visual Studio 2022 on November 8

Microsoft yesterday announced the Visual Studio 2022 conference to be held on November 8. Visual Studio 2022 will be a 64-bit application. At the same time, VS 2022 Release Candidate (RC) and Preview 5 preview are released. In addition, Microsoft has also introduced some fixes and enhancements in Preview 5, and repaired the project overview page/diagnostic tools and performance analysis The panel in the monitor may be over-magnified when using certain multi-monitor configurations.

IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 EAP 4 officially released

IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 EAP 4 is now released. This version comes with an important new feature, supports remote development, and also brings support for Groovy 4, accessibility updates and other improvements. In addition, starting from EAP 4, IntelliJ IDEA has added a new change tool window; this version also supports new Java checks. It also solves some accessibility issues, such as disabling tool widget pop-ups and quick document pop-ups that appeared on mouse hover in the past.

Deno 1.15 is officially released

Deno 1.15 has been released. Deno is a V8-based runtime for executing JavaScript and TypeScript outside of the web browser. It has safe default settings and a good development experience. Deno 1.15 version includes the following features and changes:

• New encryption API;
• Improve FFI. This version adds support for two very useful functions to the FFI API: non-blocking calls and buffering parameters;
• Improve node compatibility and nest a test API

jQuery UI 1.13.0 is officially released

jQuery UI 1.13.0 has been officially released. The main update of this version focuses on improving the compatibility of the old version of jQuery. Other updates include:

• Fix some security issues;
• Delete the deprecated jQuery API
• Cancel jQuery 1.7 support, but still support jQuery 1.8 and higher

In addition, some small features have been added: the date picker option now includes an optional onUpdateDatepicker callback, which will be called when the DOM of the date picker widget is updated.

Ubuntu 21.10 is officially released, using GNOME 40 desktop environment

Ubuntu 21.10 (code-named "Impish Indri") has been officially released.

The new version brings many improvements, the most obvious change is the desktop environment switch to GNOME Shell 40 and provides many optimizations, including the improvement of the theme. In addition, Ubuntu 21.10 also contains many low-level improvements, such as upgrading the kernel and compiler, and other noteworthy package version upgrades.

Ubuntu 21.10 is not a long-term support (LTS) version. The official support will end in July 2022. It is just before the launch of the next LTS (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to be released in April 2022, providing 10 years of technical support) The last transitional version.

Ubuntu 21.10 update highlights

• GNOME 40 is used as the desktop environment by default
• The kernel uses Linux version 5.13
• Bringing a brand new PHP 8
• Use GCC 11 as the default system compiler
• Use the snap version of Firefox as the default browser, replacing the existing APT-based Firefox software package
• The default theme is light-colored Yaru Light
• Equipped with a new installer written using Flutter
• Use the new Ubuntu brand logo
• Apply Zstd compression to the package
• Enable Wayland for users of NVIDIA drivers
• Improve touchpad
• Use new wallpaper
• ……